Photo of a wealthy Odessa merchant

Visit-portrait. By the early twentieth century "merchants in jerkin" is not met – the characters in the plays of Ostrovsky were finally a thing of the past. Pictured dressed in immaculate, expensive matter suit jacket, tie, tied a few artistically. Of social status showed only a massive hour-long chain fastened to one of the loops of the vest, but the signs of charitable societies. The most famous sign of the red cross in memory Russian-Turkish war of 1877 – 1878 in the form of malekula red cross under an Imperial crown surrounded by a strip, clearly visible on the left side of the jacket. These signs were given as hospital staff and supporters, which activities of the red cross during the Russo-Turkish war of financial aid. On the left lapel – badge of the charity (not defined) in the form of a circle with lobes; above, at the outlet of the tape – apparently, "frachnyh" reduced size, the sign of the order SV. Vladimir 4 th century. Since the order is not actually included in the General gradualness of Russian orders and complained at the personal discretion of the Emperor, an exception can be awarded to a particularly honored person of the merchant class. The picture was taken in the famous and expensive Odessa Studio Gottlieb, where he should have photographed the figure of this magnitude.